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Brazil Senate Panel Recommends Impeaching, Removing Rousseff

Case moves to full Senate, where final decision is expected in a few weeks

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Paulo Trevisani

Aug. 4, 2016 12:52 p.m. ET

BRASÍLIA—A Senate committee voted 14-5 on Thursday to recommend a conviction in suspended President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment trial and that she then be permanently ousted.

The case now goes to the full Senate, which over the coming weeks will hold its own hearings and Ms. Rousseff will have a chance to defend herself in person. She is accused of using illegal accounting maneuvers to mask a widening budget gap, something she denies.